An attacker that has valid credentials can open many connections to the imap-hibernate service and send invalid commands, which can intermittently cause an out-of-bounds read and crash the process. The crash interrupts hibernated IMAP sessions handled by the affected process, which can cause degradation of service for IMAP. Disable IMAP hibernation. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.
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| Description | An attacker that has valid credentials can open many connections to the imap-hibernate service and send invalid commands, which can intermittently cause an out-of-bounds read and crash the process. The crash interrupts hibernated IMAP sessions handled by the affected process, which can cause degradation of service for IMAP. Disable IMAP hibernation. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known. | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-125 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: OX
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Updated: 2026-08-28T10:30:42.113Z
Reserved: 2026-04-08T09:59:59.342Z
Link: CVE-2026-40015
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-28T12:16:28.363
Modified: 2026-08-28T12:16:28.363
Link: CVE-2026-40015
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